File Explorer

#1 You should be able to mod the game engine to give you access to the file dialog that windows supports. I don't think they are default to mfc, but they may be. You could also implement the classes and use a gui transparent to show them.

#2 You can always mod the code from the world builder. It has a primitive explorer, and would allow for cross-platform support rather than hooking into the native api's for each OS.

#3 If you're working with TGEA, the stuff you're propably looking for is OpenFileDialog and OpenFolderDialog.

$foo = new OpenFileDialog();
//set some properties of $foo
$foo.execute();

$selectedFile = $foo.fileName;

#4 In TGE, one way for file selection is getLoadFilename and getSaveFilename. Don't know of a ready-made directory selection dialog in TGE.

Unfortunately, the selection is restricted to stuff in the game directory, so it would not work for selecting arbitrary files. Native dialog support is only available with TGEA. If you have both engines and want to use TGE, you could just backport the relevant code (should be trivial). Otherwise, you would have to roll your own thing.

function foo( %fileName )
{
    echo( "Selected file name is: " TAB %fileName );
}

getLoadFilename( "*.*", foo );

#5 Hi,
I am using TGE ..is there any way to implement file explorer in it.Any inbuild functions?

#6 There's GuiDirectoryFileListCtrl and GuiDirectoryTreeCtrl. Unfortunately, AFAIK both are restricted to the game directory. However, at least in the case of GuiDirectoryFileListCtrl the change to the engine code to remove that restriction is trivial.

#7 Hi,
any way to implement it in TGE 1.5 ..

#8 Except in my first post, I had been talking about TGE.

#9 Hi, did you find a way to access or explore directories outside the engine directory in TGE?